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Penelope (1966)
wish it was on DVD
okay, it's not perfect. it's a 60's screwball comedy filled with color, humor and silliness. Natalie Wood is great in it, very funny and she wears great clothes. Peter Falk must have been practicing for Columbo and the guy who plays her husband is acceptable if a bit boring sometimes. but then, i guess he's meant to be viewed that way. Wood plays a bored housewife who steals things whenever she feels like her husband isn't paying attention to her due to his work. so she robs his colleagues. Now this is all well and good but she also robs her husbands bank of $60,000. thats the plot, absurd and silly but fun and very funny. i can't understand why it bombed at the box office, never mind, at least it was a good bomb. don't forget that some of the best movies out there bombed at the box office. this isn't one of the best movies out there but it's great fun and i can think of worse way for you to spend your time. 7/10. this movie would be nothing without the always great Natalie Wood, who didn't show her flare for comedy that often.
True Romance (1993)
One of my favourites
I think this movie is amazing the dialogue believable and sometimes a bit funny. I may be biased but i'm a girl who loves killing spree movies. or crime movies in general. But this movie was more than that, it had everything! humour, romance (or course), murder, action and drug dealing. lets face it: Christian Slater is at his best when he's holding a gun. Think about it, Heathers was great (he killed a few people) a pretty much MADE Very bad Things enjoyable. and now we have this, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L Jackson, Brad Pitt and Christopher Walken... what a cast! This is the best movie of Patricia Arquette's career, although i'm not well informed of her career but i have certainly seen some of her other films. this obliterates them all. is it over the top? yes is it accurate? no. is it supposed to be over the top and inaccurate? yes because it's a Tarentino movie. his films are amazing and thrilling, not accurate. who cares? just see it, this review hasn't been much help to you i'm sure but take my advice... see it. it almost makes you want to be criminal.
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
pretty good
this movie is, on the surface, your typical over blown silent film. when it comes to the action its laughable (the sword fights were hilarious to me)but i was somewhat drawn in by Rudolph Valentino's looks and general appeal. it was on last night and i was a bout to go to bed, but my parents were still surfing channels when it comes onto this film. i recognised Valentino the second i saw him and instantly knew the movie. even though i'd never seen suddenly i could go to bed! i just kept staring, this silent movie that played like a comedy to me was drawing me in. suddenly the romance was apparent and i had fallen for Valentino's heroic character. it's not dramatic though. sword fights are hilarious!
The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004)
alright i guess...
personally i don't believe Finstad's book, mostly gossip and hearsay in my opinion. i did however like the actors in this. The woman who played Natalie Wood was fine. Looked a little like her, though she sounded nothing like her (listen to her singing "let me entertain you" then listen to the real Natalie sing it) but it was interesting enough, more as a "this is the info we think is right" rather than a "this is what happened" biopic. still good though, acting was wonderful. Natalie Wood deserves more biopics (they have a ton on Marilyn Monroe! share people!) but overall i was interested.
recommended by me, but be wary- you will feel sad.